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A Dictionary of American History
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Lake Erie, Battle of
Lake Erie, Battle of On 10 September 1813, Captain Oliver H. Perry’s squadron of 9 ships (53 guns, 2 swivels, 530 seamen, 60 Ky. militia as marines) engaged Captain Robert Barclay’s squadron of 6 ships (63 guns, 4 howitzers, 2 swivels, 440 sailors and marines). Perry’s account of the battle reported: “We have met the enemy and they are ours—two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and a sloop.” US losses: 21 killed, 63 wounded. British losses: 44 killed, 396 captured (including 103 wounded.) By establishing US naval supremacy on Lake Erie, Perry’s victory forced British evacuation of Fort Detroit (1813) and enabled US forces to pursue them into Canada, where the US won the decisive battle of the Thames River.
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Lake Erie, Battle of," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96ISRAZ8EBEX2LN.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Lake Erie, Battle of." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96ISRAZ8EBEX2LN.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Lake Erie, Battle of' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=96ISRAZ8EBEX2LN.
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